They also mention the term ‘Generalizing Specialist’. Scott W. Ambler wrote about this kind of developer in his essay ‘Generalizing Specialists: Improving Your IT Career Skills‘. This is a kind of developer who is constantly learning and playing with adjacent topics and thus widens his knowledge over the years of his worklife. The effects and advantages for the team, the project owner and the developer are depicted nicely in this essay.

Find out interesting thoughts and experiences about the selection and usage of a frameworks for your projects in this set of slides ‘Living with Frameworks‘ by Stuart Herbert, Technical Manager at www.gradwell.com.

You will learn about:

How frameworks save you time (=money) and ensure quality but can also waste resources if applied in another way the framework was intended to be used.

The importance of the framework guru role.

That a chosen framework and architecture should be strategically introduced (top-down).

Introduction and proper use of a new framework has a steep learning curve.